Posts filed under “Show Review”
Murder City Devils @ The Pool Parties 7/18/10
Warm weather, party music, and hordes of excited fans were the theme of the day at The Williamsburg Waterfront for the second of JellyNYC’s Pool Parties for 2010. I wasn’t even going to attend yesterday. The day before was spent at Sirenfest and the heat and crowds and loud music had started to get to [...]
Siren Music Festival 2010
Full Flickr Set Last year’s Siren Music Festival was the reason I started writing about music. So blame or thank that at your leisure. In DC, where I’m from, free music festivals are limited to things like the Fourth of July, where you’ll get family friendly entertainment singing all the hits from thirty years ago [...]
JellyNYC Pool Parties 7/11/10 – Pictureplane, Fang Island, Why?, Deerhoof and Xiu Xiu performing Unknown Pleasures
Full Set Here After all the worry and stress and hard work on behalf of JellyNYC, the increasingly misnamed Pool Parties returned to the Williamsburg Waterfront yesterday (Sunday, July 11th). While the weather was not one hundred percent cooperative, alternating light sprinkles and heavy humidity, the day was still pretty good, showing an evolution in [...]
Northside Fest Day 3 (Part 2)
So after the Italian showcase, I made it straight away to catch yet another matinee daylight dance party. Gordon Voidwell was performing and I was curious to see how things were looking for the former four piece turned three piece when Jamie Lidell snatched Guillermo E. Brown to be a part of his band. With [...]
Northside Festival DAY 3! (part 1)
So Friday was a slight let down, but we were determined to not let that stand in the way of a good time as we ended up hitting no less than 5 shows and seeing around a dozen bands playing everything from industrial pop to….whatever the hell The Señors of Marseille consider themselves to do. [...]
Northside Fest Day 2. Men, No Bra, Shilpa Ray’s Soundcheck
From a logistical standpoint, last night was a bit of a bust. We had planned on hitting Shea Stadium to see Shilpa Ray perform a solo set then head out and catch MEN at The Knitting Factory but it didn’t go according to plan.
Crushfest 2010 @ Public Assembly
Day one of The L Magazine’s Northside Festival is done and it was already a bit of a doozy. From last night’s many offerings, from Wavves and DOM at the Knitting Factory to ?uestlove DJing at Brooklyn Bowl to My Teenage Stride at The Charleston, we choose to cover MeanRed’s Crush Fest, a multi-genre, multi-room [...]
There Are Way Too Many People Here
Well that didn’t go according to plan at all unfortunately. When word first started coming out that Ninjasonik was going to open for Drake at a free show at the seaport, I thought it was a joke. I heard it through one of their many twitter accounts and thought “OK, well this isn’t really happening, [...]
Notes from a performace by Pocahaunted
Did you ever make noise into a fan as a kid and listen to what came out the other end as the swirling blades cut your voice into smaller sounds? Drone is a lot like that. The hum of the electronics, the manipulation of your own voice to create something eerie, with a warmth and [...]
Lemuria, Slingshot Dakota, Black Wine @ Death By Audio 6/4/10
Friday night was another in a long series of all ages punk show at the venerable Death By Audio. Where “local” acts Black Wine (from New Jersey), Slingshot Dakota (From Brooklyn and Pennsylvania), The Measure (SA) (from New Jersey) and Lemuria (Upstate NY) intersected in the middle of tours, about to launch out on tours [...]